Add citations and bibliographies to your research paper. Simple, correct, fast and fully collaborative.
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Overview
Paperpile is a full-featured reference manager right in your Google Doc ™:

- Create a perfectly formatted bibliography ready for submission of your paper
- Insert citations with one click
- Supports in-text citations and footnote citations.
- APA, MLA, Chicago and more than 7000 journal specific citation styles

- Search your references online while your are writing your paper
- Automatically lookup of PubMed IDs and DOIs. 
- Fully collaborative. It just works, even with dozens of co-authors. 

- EndNote® compatible: export your document to Word and EndNote. 
- LaTeX compatible: export your document for use with LaTeX
- Export references as RIS or BibTeX 

Paperpile respects your privacy: The add-on needs permission to manage your documents but they remain private with you at all times. Paperpile never accesses, transmits or stores any of your data other than the citation meta-data necessary to format your citations and bibliographies.
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Kirsty Buckley
April 13, 2025
I find paperpile genuinely invaluable. Yes, scraping the data from links can be sketchy, but it's no trouble to just edit the citation. Sometimes the actual reference list can be a bit incorrect, but they should be checked before submission anyway. It's a tool, and one that cuts hours of my time referencing. Could it be improved? Yes, probably, but I'm not going to stop using it because of that.
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Tudor I. Oprea
November 14, 2024
The quality of Paperpile is just going downhill. This "smart interface" that reads internet links does NOT import the year of publication. Instead, it records the year the publication was made accessible online. At least for American Chemical Society journals, most of these papers became available on-line in 2002. Trying to correct the year is ... let's just say... far from optimal. The earlier version of Paperpile was worth it. I am seriously considering canceling my subscription.
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Joshua Lyman
September 29, 2024
Doesn't work in the slightest. Searches provide no relevant results even when given the exact title or list of authors for a paper and citing by URL just gives (website) with no data
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Marjolein Admiraal
April 23, 2024
I love Paperpile but recently it has been a huge pain as my citation search window keeps disappearing. I don't understand why this keeps happening. I'll use Ctrl+Alt+P, it will pop up, and then when I want to start typing it disappears again. It's been months like this. I hope there is a fix.
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Konrad Kording
October 7, 2024
App is unstable at times. Search window literally disappears. A lot. Good when it works.
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Sayed Basha
March 12, 2025
its better
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Sarthak Joshi
May 22, 2024
i was great when I started using it, but now the search function does not work as expected. Searching for already cited items does not work at all.
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Elhussein AHMED
April 6, 2025
cuts like butter
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Mickael Leclercq
August 14, 2023
I used to love it, but since a few weeks, I have to start the same search many times to have a result. Is it a temporary bug ?
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Brad English
May 9, 2023
Great stuff! Would send me over the moon to see the exact same functionality available for Google Slides, as well. Thanks for considering it! :-D
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